About Videos Whitepapers LotusNotes - The Asbestos of Enterprise IT October 09th, 2006 On Friday, I threw up a post saying that, actually, it was fairly easy to leave LotusNotes. I described a way for any half way decent coder to pull information out of LotusNotes by screen scraping content in what LotusNotes calls a “database. I suggested screen scraping because it requires zero knowledge about LotusNotes itself.

About Videos Whitepapers LotusNotes Email Vs. Microsoft Outlook August 17th, 2006 Microsoft and IBM both own massive cash cows. IBM sells LotusNotes/Domino. The point of this survey is not to consider blogs and wiki stuff, but instead, just to simply ask users today which tool they prefer as an email tool. Please help make this a useful poll by encouraging your friends to submit their vote. Notes Domino is far more than an email system.

About Videos Whitepapers Simple Recipe to Leave LotusNotes October 06th, 2006 A little while ago, I asked a simple question: “ Is Microsoft Losing its Network Effect? MSFT has relied upon the network effect of the Windows Desktop. I think it is only fair to ask the same question of LotusNotes. IBM claims that 50% of enterprise email users are on LotusNotes. LotusNotes is more than just email, however.

About Videos Whitepapers LotusNotes + Blogs Wikis Web 2.0 App tools October 10th, 2006 This blog is usually too academic and too dull to produce a blog storm. I would very much like to take the folks how have commented on the last two posts. I am still not sure why he feels the need to slam my IT experience, but he is right that LotusNotes is a powerful platform with lots of capabilities. I find it one of the best ways to learn.

About Videos Whitepapers Google takes $200+ Million from LotusNotes & MSFT December 31st, 2006 The Web 2.0 / Enterprise 2.0 Here’s a quote: Dave Girouard, the boss of Google’s small but growing enterprise division, says that “tens of thousands” of organisations have already signed up to use Google’s web-based tools in place of traditional in-house e-mail systems and other software. The students could voluntarily move to the new GMail based web system.

www.straitsknowledge.com blog articles how-to guides events publications book videos about Sharepoint and Magic In Singapore we’re surrounded by people who are struggling with dense jungles of LotusNotes databases and Team Rooms which, because they were so easy to use, sucked up vast amounts of wonderful collaboration… but because they had very little governance or structure, grew like Topsy in all directions and eventually became too confusing to use.

Howto automatically sort and group complex email in Outlook The problem: I get too much automated email from one of our internal bug tracking system. Yet, I still need to keep up on whats happening with my products. In this particular system, messages come every time a new entry is submitted AND every time new information is added to the entry (such as notes or status change). Normally, this would be easy to solve with the Outlook view by conversation feature. MORE >>

Howto automatically sort and group complex email in Outlook The problem: I get too much automated email from one of our internal bug tracking system. Yet, I still need to keep up on whats happening with my products. In this particular system, messages come every time a new entry is submitted AND every time new information is added to the entry (such as notes or status change). Normally, this would be easy to solve with the Outlook view by conversation feature. MORE >>

Howto automatically sort and group complex email in Outlook The problem: I get too much automated email from one of our internal bug tracking system. Yet, I still need to keep up on whats happening with my products. In this particular system, messages come every time a new entry is submitted AND every time new information is added to the entry (such as notes or status change). Normally, this would be easy to solve with the Outlook view by conversation feature. MORE >>

About Videos Whitepapers Howto use Blogs in the Workplace January 21st, 2007 Are you a CEO? Do you want your people to communicate across silos? Do you want your engineers or your designers to know exactly what the sales people are asking them? Or better yet, do you want everyone in your company to have a deep understand of what your clients actually want, need and will pay money for? Do you want your people to be personally motivated? MORE >>

Before we look at what this means for intranets, I want to spend some time considering their history. The history of intranets is very much tied to that of the rest of the Web. When Tim Berners-Lee and his collaborators first proposed the idea that became the World Wide Web in 1989, he wanted to create a hypertext system that would allow users to: "link and access information of various kinds… [to overcome] current incompatibilities of the platforms and tools.". MORE >>